// Package sockets provides helper functions to create and configure Unix or TCP sockets. package sockets import ( "errors" "net" "net/http" "time" ) const defaultTimeout = 10 * time.Second // ErrProtocolNotAvailable is returned when a given transport protocol is not provided by the operating system. var ErrProtocolNotAvailable = errors.New("protocol not available") // ConfigureTransport configures the specified [http.Transport] according to the specified proto // and addr. // // If the proto is unix (using a unix socket to communicate) or npipe the compression is disabled. // For other protos, compression is enabled. If you want to manually enable/disable compression, // make sure you do it _after_ any subsequent calls to ConfigureTransport is made against the same // [http.Transport]. func ConfigureTransport(tr *http.Transport, proto, addr string) error { switch proto { case "unix": return configureUnixTransport(tr, proto, addr) case "npipe": return configureNpipeTransport(tr, proto, addr) default: tr.Proxy = http.ProxyFromEnvironment tr.DisableCompression = false tr.DialContext = (&net.Dialer{ Timeout: defaultTimeout, }).DialContext } return nil }